Food utopias [electronic resource] : reimagining citizenship, ethics and community

ISBN:

9781317657736

Title:

Author:

Stock, Paul V.

Personal Author:

Stock, Paul V.

Publication Information:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Series:

Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: food utopias in perspective; Foreword; PART I Food and utopias; 1 Food utopias: hoping the future of agriculture; 2 Everyday life in utopia: food; PART II Emergent food utopias; 3 From the nano to the global scale: new utopian solutions to food waste; 4 "We should have a culture around food": toward a sustainable food utopia in the Ozark-Ouachita bioregion; 5 Urban agriculture as embedded in the social and solidarity economy Basel: developing sustainable communities

6 Slow Food Presidia: the nostalgic and the utopian7 Towards utopias of prefigurative politics and food sovereignty: experiences of politicised peasant food production; 8 Re-wilding food systems: visceralities, utopias, pragmatism, and practice; PART III Food, ethics and morality; 9 Sketching a global agroecology eutopia: The Land Institute in directional context; 10 Contradictions in hope and care: technological utopianism, Biosphere II and the Catholic Worker farms; 11 Spurlock's vomit and visible food utopias: enacting a positive politics of food

PART IV Conclusion: an invitation to food utopias12 Food as mediator: opening the dialogue around food; Index

Subject Term:

Citizenship.

Communities

Food -- Social aspects.

Social movements.

Added Author:

Carolan, Michael

Rosin, Christopher

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://angliss.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1924481

Publication Date:

2015

Publication Information:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015.

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Summary

Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty - consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid, freedom, and responsibility.

In this stimulating and provocative book the authors link these issues to utopias and intentional communities. Using a food utopias framework presented in the introduction, they examine food stories in three interrelated and complementary ways: utopias as critique of existing systems; utopias as engagement with experimentation of the novel, the forgotten, and the hopeful in the future of the food system; and utopias as process that recognizes the time and difficulty inherent in changing the status quo.

The chapters address theoretical aspects of food utopias and also present case studies from a range of contexts and regions, including Argentina, Italy, Switzerland and USA. These focus on key issues in contemporary food studies including equity, locality, the sacred, citizenship, community and food sovereignty. Food utopias offers ways forward to imagine a creative and convivial food system.

Author Notes

Paul Stock is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, USA.

Michael Carolan is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.

Christopher Rosin is Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainability: Agriculture, Food, Energy, Environment, University of Otago, New Zealand.